Example sentences of "[noun] demands for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 28 the leaders of the nine main opposition parties were reported to have supported FMLN demands for a sharp reduction in the power of the military , as a crucial step towards ending the 11-year civil war . |
| 2 | Cristiani claimed that FMLN demands for a purge of the armed forces remained the main obstacle to a ceasefire [ for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37707-08 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ; 37957 ; 38000 ; 38093 ; 38187 ] . |
| 3 | Opposition demands for a national conference on the country 's political future were denounced on June 1 by the secretary-general of the ruling PDCI , Laurent Dona Fologo , who told a rally in Abidjan that " the national conference is called the National Assembly " . |
| 4 | Lansana Conte , relinquished the presidency of the CTRN , in answer to opposition demands for a separation of the executive and legislature . |
| 5 | Opposition demands for a full parliamentary investigation into the corruption issue led to a prolonged boycott of the Diet 's deliberation for the 1992-93 budget . |
| 6 | The budget debate had been delayed by opposition demands for an investigation into the government 's role in the various scandals . |
| 7 | The elections , which had been announced on April 23 following negotiations in response to unprecedented pro-democracy street rallies in December 1989 and January 1990 [ see pp. 37428-29 ] , fell short of opposition demands for the full restoration of parliament . |
| 8 | Mobutu had agreed in April to opposition demands for the holding of a conference to discuss a new constitution and the holding of multiparty elections [ see p. 38133 ] , but the conference had been repeatedly postponed and the government had decreed on July 15 that it would not be sovereign on constitutional matters . |
| 9 | Saibou had in November 1990 yielded to opposition demands for the introduction of a multiparty system and for the holding of a national conference [ see pp. 38085 ; 37841 ] . |
| 10 | Mr Howard was responding to Tory grassroots demands for the Government to do more to relieve homelessness and allow councils to spend more of their own cash to provide homes . |
| 11 | For this reason Simons argues that self-evaluation should be isolated from accountability demands for a time , although she also believes that school self-evaluation could provide the most positive form of accountability procedure in the long term . |
| 12 | Likely household demands for the new technologies are being identified and then the factors relating to the take-up of these products are being examined . |
| 13 | Al-Ahram reported on Oct. 2 that a " preliminary solution " had been reached over Libya 's failure to comply with UN demands for the extradition of two Lockerbie bombing suspects [ see pp. 38883 ; 39072 ] . |
| 14 | Behind this , and the Vietminh demands for the complete restoration of their government and the disarming of French forces there was , as Dunn puts it , the insoluble problem : ‘ The Vietminh wanted full sovereignty and the French delegates could not negotiate it . ’ |
| 15 | Strike committees in Byelorussia decided to resume on May 22 the general strike which had gripped the republic in April [ see pp. 38129-30 ] , because a session of the republic 's Supreme Soviet which had opened on the previous day was still refusing to put on its agenda demands for a coalition government . |
| 16 | Silhouette also provides this with their new ‘ Desire ’ label , which was developed in response to ‘ consumer demands for a new series ’ . |
| 17 | In addition NT has extreme disk space demands for a desktop environment , approximately 50Mb , a severe increase over the 20Mb needed for Windows 3.1 but better than a typical RISC/Unix set-up . |
| 18 | At a secret meeting of defence officials representing the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries near Bonn , Germany , on Nov. 20 , European and Japanese officials were reported to have resisted US demands for a far-reaching ban on all potentially militarily useful equipment to Iran . |
| 19 | Announcing the 1989-90 budget on June 30 , 1989 , the then Finance Minister , Hassan Gbassay Kanu , doubled the official price of petrol to Le110 a gallon , in line with International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank demands for the removal of fuel subsidies . |
| 20 | In 1987 , the Lord Chief Justice ( Lord Lane ) publicly backed police demands for the abolition of the suspect 's ‘ right to silence ’ ; and was reported as attacking politicians for delay in passing tougher laws on sentencing policy , a question on which the judiciary was divided . |
| 21 | The Orthodox hierarchy accused the Roman Catholic Church of encouraging Uniate demands for the restitution of property from the Orthodox Church in Ukraine . |
| 22 | The Kadet ministers considered their socialist colleagues were pre-empting the decisions of the Constituent Assembly by making partial concessions to Ukrainian demands for autonomy and to peasant demands for the redistribution of private land . |